If you find out which were the main ingredients he recognized I can probably get a good old fashioned southern recipe for you.

Oh yeah... this is something you pickle and can (or "put up" as a true southerner would say). You will have to convert any recipe you get because one recipe makes several pints (usually 10-12). You have to let it pickle before you can eat it. It's not something you whip up for dinner at the spur of the moment.

I don't like corn relish even a little. So I don't personally have a recipe. But "hillbilly" side of the family loves the stuff. I'll send the word out and most like will have a classic recipe in a day or so. I'll post back.

Now, if you want to make proper corn relish (compare this to Christine constantly telling you how to make and serve afternoon tea properly [in other words, no short cuts] this is the proper way to make relish) here you go: